YlangYlang

Catherine Debard comes from Montreal’s experimental music scene, a community in which she was actively involved as both a musician and event organizer from 2008 to 2020. Under the name YlangYlang, a solo project she has been developing since 2012, she has released records internationally on labels such as Crash Symbols (United States), Phinery (Denmark), and ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ (Russia). She has toured extensively across Canada and performed at international music festivals such as Mutek, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Electric Eclectics, and Strangewaves.

In 2019, she participated in the Red Bull Music Academy at the National Music Centre in Calgary. Debard has collaborated with several artists from different disciplines, including Olivia Faye Lathuillère (performance), Andrea Young (hypnosis), Ariane Dessaulles (dance), and Sonya Stefan (video). More recently, as part of Mue (a duo with musician Léon Lo), she took part in two collaborations with visual artist Katherine Melançon: A Discard Studies, a performance presented at MTelus for Mutek Montréal, and To Soften Our Fall, the soundtrack for a series of videos presented at Sonolux as part of Seeds of r/evolution, an exhibition by Cheryl Sim (PHI). Since 2020, Debard and Lo have hosted a monthly show dedicated to experimental music, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, broadcast on n10.as.

Photo credit : Léon Lo